Isaac Newton Medal goes to American physicist
The Institute of Physics has announced the winners of its annual awards in the discipline
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Labour should set science budget ‘for full Parliament’
A Labour government should set a science and research budget for the entire Parliament, and give universities a bigger role in driving local growth.
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Prizewinners’ labs ‘least likely to hire women’
Women are greatly underrepresented in the laboratories of the highest-achieving male biology professors in the US, a study has revealed.
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Hundreds of poorer children missing out on ‘elite’ universities, says commission
Milburn blames ‘secondary school maze’ for missing 2,000
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Take students out of immigration target, say prospective Tory MPs
Eight out of 10 prospective Tory MPs think the government should not target international students in the drive to reduce net migration.
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Academics call for guidelines on use of online learners’ data
Delegates at California convention produce framework on use of personal information
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UK universities' incubator voted best in Europe and second in world
A UK university-business incubator has been voted the best in Europe.
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Private college singled out by immigration minister hits back
LSBF says many of its students do have the right to work
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Ruth Farwell to retire as Bucks New v-c
Ruth Farwell has announced she is to retire as vice-chancellor of Bucks New University early next year
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THE podcast: 26 June - 2 July 2014 issue review
Download the podcastThe Home Office clampdown on student visas, unrealistic student employment expectations and the size of UK university endowments are all up for discussion in this week’s Times...
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Which? director wants HE ‘to get its house in order’
Richard Lloyd to call for universities to be judged on graduate employment
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THE podcast: University of California, Berkeley
Download the podcastNicholas Dirks, chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, and Scott Biddy, vice-chancellor for university relations at the same institution, discuss California’s...
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In research, weird is wonderful
Sovietised REF blocks progress. Innovation comes when universities encourage risk-taking, says Andrew Oswald
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London Metropolitan pays £1.3m a year for unused building
University still pays rent and maintenance costs for Ladbroke House and is stuck in lease until 2016
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A coherent whole
The University of London has at no point recommended that the Warburg Institute’s unique collection be absorbed into Senate House Library (“Library saved from Nazis awaits its fate”, News, 19 June)....